Bill Gates - Humanitarian
24 Billion is a lot of kablingy
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$24 billion should go a long way in helping some of these people.
[quote]American Airlines Flight 657 covers the distance from New York to Haiti—roughly a light-year, in human terms—in four hours.<hr></blockquote>
Writers need to go back to grammar shcool. And who cares about a light year? I think they're trying to say that light travels 4 miles a second or something.
[ 01-27-2002: Message edited by: BuonRotto ]</p>
"in human terms", New York and Haiti are light years apart.
Literally, they are just four hours (flight) apart.
Not that tough.